Wednesday, February 10, 2010

8th Grade Study Guide

Great Depression / New Deal Test

Material covered in Notes

- “After the War”

- “The Great Depression”

- “The New Deal”

Format

10 – True / False

10 – Matching

10 – Multiple Choice

1 – Essay

Key Terms and Themes

Red Summer of 1919

Hoovervilles

Walker Evans

Dorothea Lange

Eleanor Roosevelt

Popular Opinion of the New Deal

Huey Long

“Every Man A King”

Beginning of World War II

Repeal of the 18th Amendment (Why? When?)

Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Federal Music Project (FMP)

Birth of a Nation

Xenophobia

Dust Bowl

National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)

Langston Hughes

“The Negro Speaks of Rivers”

Irving Berlin

Causes of the Great Depression

Woody Guthrie

This Machine Kills Fascists

“This Land is Your Land”

What made the Second New Deal different?

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

Joad Family

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

Social Security Act

What percentage of the population was unemployed?

How did the Federal government grow in size?

How did people feel about FDR? His power?

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